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Cressy

Cress′y

(krĕs′y̆)
,
Adj.
Abounding in cresses.
The
cressy
islets white in flower.
Tennyson.

Definition 2024


cressy

cressy

English

Adjective

cressy (comparative more cressy, superlative most cressy)

  1. Abounding in cresses
    • 1972, Richard Adams, Watership Down
      Between the copse and the brook, the slope was covered with pale lilac lady's-smocks, each standing separately in the grass, a frail stalk of bloom above a spread of cressy leaves.